One Monday night, Sarah, the 17-year-old daughter of the Regan
family, is preparing for her geography exam with her father Seth:
"Glaciers are huge expanses of moving ice. When a great mass of
compressed ice reaches a critical mass, it becomes so heavy that it
begins to move.” Without knowing it, Sarah sums up her mother Harper's
emotional state with this image. Harper's father is dying, and she
wants to see him one last time. However, her boss refuses to grant her
the necessary time off. Thus, she suddenly finds herself at the
crossroads of her life, leaving her husband and child and work behind
and traveling to Stockport. However, she is too late. For a short
while, her life seems completely open again: without a job and far from
her family, the subsequent events set her life in motion again, and it
is as if it were given to her anew. Harper Regan is a contemporary drama in stages, the atmosphere of which continues to reverberate for quite some time.Simon
Stephens is the most successful British playwright of his generation;
he was elected best foreign playwright of the season 2006/07 by the
theatre critics of the German-speaking countries.